Rainbow to Defend Yacht Cup
RAINBOW LEADING THE YANKEE IN TRIAL FOR CUP HONOR
NOSING ACROSS the finish line a bare second ahead of the Yankee, the Rainbow has won the coveted honor of defending the America’s cup in the coming international yacht race with the English yacht Endeavour. The Rainbow is shown leading the Yankee in the trial yesterday off Newport, R. I.
Photo by International News Photographic Service.

Rainbow Is Selected To Defend Cup
By MONTAGU WORTHLEY
NEWPORT, R. I., Sept. 1 (I.N.S.).— Rainbow, belonging to a syndicate of 17 millionaires, has been selected to defend the America’s cup against the fifteenth and latest challenger, T. O. M. Sopwith’s blue-hulled Endeavour.
The announcement came from George A. Cormack, secretary of the New York Yacht Club, last night when the steam yacht Corsair, belonging to J. P. Morgan, and carrying the America’s cup committee aboard, returned from the final race of the trial series in which the Rainbow edged out the Yankee by a margin of a second in the closest race witnessed in many a year.
Riding one sea more Yankee would have been on even terms and two seas would have put her across the finish line a second ahead. In that 15-mile run down the wind Yankee closed a gap of 1 minute, 35 seconds. To a single second, and it was a glorious effort for Charles Francis Adams, her skipper, even though the Hope of the Hub did lose.
In addition to that, Yankee’s genoa jib carried away while on the weather leg of a windward and leeward course, and her “Greta Garbo jib” parted a stay.